Usain Bolt wins 100m Olympic final in 9.63s
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Usain Bolt has won the Men’s 100m Olympic Final at London 2012, defending his crown from Beijing in 2008 to win in a scintillating Olympic record time of 9.63s.
Jamaican compatriot and former training partner Johan Blake won silver in 9.75, equalling his personal best, while Justin Gatlin from the USA held off Tyson Gay by 0.01 to win bronze in 9.79.
Bolt set his second fastest ever time – destroying the field after the start and running out to the line. His face showed his enormous explosive power and concentration.
Bolt’s start wasn’t perfect, with Gay next to him getting his trademark perfect beginning, but his drive to maximum velocity simply blew the others away.
Blake, Gatlin and Gay finished in a line, with Gatlin’s lunge at the line just tipping out Gay.
Seven of the eight men ran sub-10s times, with only Asafa Powell unable to run to the line competitively, injuring himself in the run.
Bolt told Channel Nine: “It’s all about championships for me”.
“I’m so confident with my coach, we just went back and executed”
“Yeah, there were some nerves, but after the semi-finals I felt a lot better and felt confident.”
He finished with this: “I want to say to the Australian people, I’m visiting, I’m coming on vacation in September”.
Look out!
The five fastest 100m times in history:
9.58 Bolt, Berlin ’09
9.63 Bolt, London ’12
9.69 Bolt, Beijing ’08
9.69 Gay, Shanghai ’09
9.71 Gay, Berlin ’09
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August 6th 2012 @ 9:37am
onside said | August 6th 2012 @ 9:37am | Report comment
At the Beijing Olympics the Chinese Government insisted on a ten second TV broadcasting delay, to
counteract and be able to edit out any possible political protest, before the vision went to air.
As the mens 100 metre final is run in about ten seconds, the broadcasting delay of ten seconds resulted
in the race not being shown live.
The only people who watched the race live were those inside the Olympic stadium.
The race was won, over,done and dusted, before the rest of the world got to watch the replay .
In the overall scheme of things,ten seconds may not seem all that much to most people, but from Usain
Bolts perspective,it’s an eternity.
The lack of TV broadcasting delays in 2012, is probably the reason Usain ran faster in London than Bejing.
August 6th 2012 @ 10:02am
jameswm said | August 6th 2012 @ 10:02am | Report comment
Might have something to do with Bolt slowing up and celebrating 30m from the finish in Beijing I think.
August 6th 2012 @ 10:40am
onside said | August 6th 2012 @ 10:40am | Report comment
jameswm
You’re right. I was just trying to get the delay story across.
No big deal really.Just my absurd way of looking at things.
August 6th 2012 @ 11:29am
Droppa said | August 6th 2012 @ 11:29am | Report comment
two planks mate..thats you
August 6th 2012 @ 2:19pm
onside said | August 6th 2012 @ 2:19pm | Report comment
ha ha,your shout
August 6th 2012 @ 9:48am
josh said | August 6th 2012 @ 9:48am | Report comment
I don’t think we will see his records being broken for a while yet; at least not by the current crop of sprinters, they just don’t have what he does. He is just on another level.
Blake et al may be able to catch him on an off day. But he has shown here even at a self rated 95% match fit he can still win by 1 metre. Its incredible stuff.
Bio mechanics must love studying his form. He is goes against the archetype of 100m sprinters. The power he generates so late in his stride…
I clapped in my suburban home a long way from London. He is the best, better than Lewis.
August 6th 2012 @ 11:21am
Jocelyn McLennan said | August 6th 2012 @ 11:21am | Report comment
This was the fastest race with the fastest humans in history…for Bolt to be a mere 3cms or so slower than his win in Beijing and yet there he eased down and had about 8 to 10 metres on the field…here, he had them on his hammer until the last 3 metres….a blanket across all of them…shame about my favourite Powell breaking down again…his glass hamstring….he was in that mix and was leading after the first 15 metres….with 3 americans in that final running such awesome times it will make the mens 4×100 relay and scintalating prospect…depending on how Powell is but they have a host of other boys to bring in…teh broke the world record last year without Powell…but Bailey and Gatlin were not in this kind of form this time last year….bring it on…cannot wait